At any given time, about 100 to 150 white power bands are in the United States. The bands' own names defiantly express feelings of hate or violence: Aggravated Assault, Angry Aryans, Attack, Definite Hate, Final Solution, Force Fed Hate, Fueled by Hate, Hatebreed, Hate Crime, Jew Slaughter and White Terror, among others.

Courageously, the author - Lonnie Nasatir of Anti-Defamation League's Upper Midwest Region - removed the accusation from the story without acknowledging it.

Update: Well, the story was amended to acknowledge the mistake; this doesn't really excuse the sloppy and shockingly irresponsible behavior by the author and by CNN, neither of whom apparently felt that typing a band name into Google would be worth their time.

Bands that express racially motivated hate such as Good Clean Fun, Wesley Willis and the Dragnews, Reel Big Fish, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Atom and His Package and dozens of other bands that appear to have pages on the google!

Seriously, you made my day. My cousin grew up in the same neighborhood as 'Jew Slaughter' (a wonderful neighborhood that espouses the greatness and superiority of the white race, known locally as 'Felony Flats'--famous for its artisan meth) and I was unfortunately exposed to their music in some very 'Winter's Bone'-ish situations at way too young of an age. Time and time again, I have thought about how those were some of the most disgusting places I have ever found myself and I would feel sad that I have ever heard such an ugly band. Now, finally, I can laugh about it. Thank you.

Yeah, I would assuage your anger and say they're long gone but I just googled them and apparently they're out of prison and ready to record a follow-up to 2001's "Alcoholocaust" Great, just what Felony Flats needs!

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Considering the abiding popularity of RAC, "tiny minority" may be way off. Hell, Stormfront alone has many thousands of members and a better Alexa ranking than Absolutepunk. I wouldn't be remotely surprised if a good third or more of all self-identified skinheads were WP/RAC.

This means nothing. Absolutely nothing. I encounter a lot of non-sharp skinheads and they're _definitely_ not "underground".

Just so you know, the supporter forum for a local soccer team here has 650k uniques a month. There are at least 3 other teams (that you've never heard of) with similar numbers and we just hit 10 million in total population over here. 117k worldwide for such a prominent forum is nothing. How many active posters do we have here? It has to be less than a hundred.

Pageviews and active involvement are two very different things. Also, Stormfront probably gets a lot of pageviews from left wingers keeping an eye on the enemy. I know I hit the BNP website every so often, to keep up with the latest trends in idiotic racist lies.

The thing about Stormfront though is it's set up to discourage casual visitation. It took me FOR-EV-ER to finally get a repped account there that didn't immediately get banned for accidentally posting something not sufficiently goofy. And, once again according to useless Alexa, just for comparison the average time on site for Stormfront is double that of Punknews, whose stats are surely skewed by Echos and Skibz.

But yeah, there are indeed a lot of people like me infiltrating them, it's just not easy. There's more openness on Al Qaeda boards.

Fortunately you CAN browse a lot of the hilarity there without being logged in, which is actually kind of stupid considering like all its members are constantly advocating violence. However I try NOT to start arguments there, then they'll ban me and I have to make another account and cycle my VPN and assorted other horseshit. I'm a lurker.

not everyone on stormfront is a skinhead though, probably not even half. Most of them are just hardcore racists who enjoy a mob mentality, not specifically skins. And there's the added hits you'd get from people who are curious as to what it is, given its controversy, as well as people like myself and a lot of my friends who just go on there to laugh at nazis or subtly ridicule them

Wait, I don't get the irony. The article doesn't even mention their hatred of thumb amptuties...

(disclosure, I know full well the band, however horrible, is against racial hatred, and I even remember hearing about one of their shows here in Detroit where they had a bunch of white power skins kicked out, not that there has been a single person here sticking up for them from what I could tell but I wanted to throw that out there just in case)